a.a. 2024/25

Academic coordinator: Stefano Urbinati

Period: second semester

Duration: 28 hours

Program:

• Definition of tropical geometry
• Basic concepts of algebraic geometry
• Introduction to tropical numbers
• Tropical monomials and affine integral geometry
• Amoebas of affine algebraic varieties and their limits
• Introduction to polyhedral geometry
• The balancing condition
• Tropical plane curves
• Tropical toric varieties
• Tropical projective space and projective hypersurfaces
• Tropical cycles, subspaces, and stable intersection
• Practical examples and applications
• Final sessions chosen by the students, including participant presentations